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Harv, Nature Has No Known Brain Above Human Level

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Posted by Michael W. Pearson on October 18, 2004 01:59:26 UTC

a correspondent wrote:
I would reply to that by saying that you are being too specific as to the creation methodology used by the Creator and is not overtly mentioned in Genesis. All that is mentioned is that God commanded "the earth to bring forth..." life, and one has no way of knowing if by this statement earth is a little naturally selective in its methodology which is instituted by the Creator.

Natural selection is not a methodology. It is what occurs by default in the absence of methodology. Thinking beings employ calculations, designs, models, drawing boards, debates, algorithms...none of which, to our knowledge, were done by nature on Earth before humans -- except for that brief visit by beings in that cute flying saucer which landed in Fred and Wilma Flintstone's cousin's yard.

Human beings use methods of selection which are
ARTIFICIAL (I'm shouting in CAPS because the same three folks have covered this before and I thought you might comprehend it by now ...and...because silent shouting is harmless)

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